Grades are Done!

Greetings 753ers! I just finished grading. Grades are in the system and envelopes are in the GSLIS office to pick up at your convenience.

Thanks for a great class!

Poll

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Survey

Please take our survey:

http://www.polldaddy.com/s/CC559F583A269DE8/

Second Life Module

http://l2course.wordpress.com/mod-second-life/

For those who might be interested, links to readings for LIS768.

Books

Good Morning! One of you asked what books I had in class on first weekend.

Elizabeth Castro – Creating a Web Page with HTML (Visual Quickstart)

Elizabeth Castro – HTML for the World Wide Web (5th Edition)

Wendy Lehnert – Web Wizards Guide to HTML (2002) (Older but very straight forward)

We also have all of the Web resources listed on the class syllabus pages. I’ll be bringing the books to class. See you Saturday!

Reading Blogs

I’m starting the grading of your blogs – GOOD STUFF.

Just a heads up: one important part of the task was inserting links in all of your posts! Please look over your posts in the next few days and I will see you soon.

Mishawaka Library Bans Social Networking

Via the South Bend Tribune and a bunch of folks who emailed me:

You can no longer use MySpace, Facebook or other “social networking sites” at Mishawaka-Penn-Harris Public Library.

Fights, lewd language and cars being blocked in the parking lot by teenagers are among the problems Director Dave Eisen said have plagued the downtown library lately.

He told library board members that adults have complained about not feeling safe at the library. Eisen and his staff believe the teenagers are there to use MySpace, Facebook and other social sites.

Oh boy. This is my hometown library. It saddens me that the space between “social networking sites” to “not feeling safe” seems so short. The article notes the ban is probably working:

It might have worked, as there were few teenagers going to the computer room by 3:30 p.m. Friday, a half hour after it normally begins to fill up. There were few teenagers even coming in to the computer room at the library.

If anyone has thoughts or would want to blog this, feel free to comment or post:

http://tametheweb.com/2008/03/18/no-myspace-facebook-at-mishawaka-library/

http://tametheweb.com/2008/03/19/an-sjcpl-librarian-responds-to-mishawakas-ban/

http://tametheweb.com/2008/03/22/stopped-by-mishawaka-penn-harris-public-library-to-see-for-myself/